well if all goes well this weekend ill be picking up this 1981 suzuki gs 550 T that is kinda bobbed and bringing it the 300 miles back to portland and will start tearing into it to make it into a cafe style bike,

well so far i haven't even gotten the bike but hopefully this weekend ill be making the 500+mile trip up to bigzack's to pick it up so fingers crossed i can get enough gas money built up and the ride stays available,

As the winter months rolls in and Christmas looming around the corner, the project slowed down a little.

As you can see in the previous update, the lady is pretty much naked only with her heart in place!
We have been trying to get her started without the battery but it looks like the battery is needed. Took me some time to get around to buying the battery as i had to do stuff( some people call it "work"!) to pay bills, feed the family and restore a bike! ...

That's right, boys and girls, yours truly got himself a new-to-him '88 KLR650. I picked it up for $1,200. Wasn't it just a short week ago I was saying I wanted a dual sport? And BLAM!! One comes and hunts me down. Cheap, too.

A friend of a customer just happened to be selling his, so I snatched it up. When I went to look at her, I about fell...

An eternity ago, I sanded down and repainted my wife's gas tank and side covers. Part of the project was to change the stock Yamaha badges from gold to chrome to better match her new paint color. After several attempts, I finally found a chrome sticky-back tape that worked well for adhering to the badges.

Well, today, I finally finished the last badge and get 'em all put back on the bike. I took a step back and admired the new look it gave her bike. The chrome really looks much better...